Posted on 09/09/2007 3:28:59 PM PDT by Ladycalif
Do you see a single GPS dome on any of these trucks? Pretty standard here. I guess once these Mexican trucks cross the border they can go wherever they want. The costs will be low because inspections, insurance, both vehicular and cargo, and commercial licenses cost money and they don’t need them.
Be ready to tip yer hat to the last American trucker. While the Mexican illegal alien criminal pisses out his first beer of the morning in your front yard with neighbor kids waiting nearby on their school bus so he can hop in his illegally parked truck and further Bush’s agenda.
If Hillary wins that will be five Clinton Presidents in a row.
Don’t worry. Soon we will all be going to the polls to elect another Beltway Insider to drag us down the tubes even more. It really doesn’t even matter which party our next ‘leader’ will come from.
Considering that there does appear to be a driver in that car, you may be right, however, it appears that the truck is also coming out of the rightmost lane, where the black car would have had to turn from, and at normal street speeds the black car would have been long gone before the truck made it that far into the intersection.
Perhaps the black car stopped to talk with the guys on the side of the road after making the turn.
Where is the jack spikes??
I see plenty of 10-15 year old cabovers, scraped fenders and home made repairs with a few late model conventionals like the black Pete making the turn. Note the smoke stained corner of the van being pulled by an old cabover. The engine is either over fueled or it needs to have the rack run and maybe some new injectors. Not many automatic slack adjusters (automatically adjusts the brakes) on those rigs. The driver has to crawl under the truck and manually adjust the brakes with a wrench. If that’s the ‘cream of the crop’ I don’t want to even be close to the real Mexican junk. ‘Safe and solid’ indeed. BTW, wolfinator, what was your criteria for determining those trucks safe and solid. Paint color?
Eeeenuff wid deez twuks!
De wet back expwess iz gonna stawt.
I thought Saudis and other Emirates bought them all by now... but I guess not, there are a few left for China to pick up. Ni hao ma? - I'm learning already :-(
We don't need Julio & Paco & Mohammed to load 'em up with drugs or illegals and truck 'em in.
You don't understand, this way the more expensive Bill, Jim and Sam, dock workers in Texas, can be sent packing. You see, if a country produces less and less, it gets richer and richer. Didn't they teach this in school? Talk about national security...
473 million tons of cargo handled by Texas ports in 2003 accounted for nearly one million jobs for Texans and more than $30 billion in economic impact.
(from here).
Mexico has some 10,000 kilometers of coastline but few navigable rivers and no good natural harbors. The country's 2,900 kilometers of navigable rivers and coastal canals play only a minor role in the transportation system. In the early 1990s, Mexico's seventy-five maritime ports and nine river ports handled 65 percent of imports and 70 percent of nonpetroleum exports. The flow of freight through Mexican ports exceeded 163 million tons of cargo in 1990, representing 31 percent of total freight carried by all modes. The five largest ports--Tampico, Veracruz, Guaymas, Mazatlán, and Manzanillo--handled 80 percent of Mexico's ocean freight.
(from here.)
So another outsourcing is coming, and its messengers are already driving the trucks here. Guess where the new investments will be sent to?
BTTT
I wonder who checked these trucks for "contraband"?
The decider doesn't want to "upset relations with Mexico" but he has no problem insulting American citizens and workers.
OTOH, I would love to have a custom Kenworth K100 Aerodyne to take to truck shows.
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